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Life Cycle of Butterflies

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners identify ways plants and animals make changes related to the seasons, specifically focusing on the life cycle of butterflies.
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Animals

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders define and describe the characteristics of a mammal and a mammal's importance to man. They also describe the life cycle of a frog and compare and contrast a larva and an adult frog. Finally, 2nd graders study and explain...
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How does Temperature Affect Time in the Pupa Stage?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners are guided through the Scientific Method to perform observations about the pupa stage of the monarch butterfly. The results of an experiment are used to make assumptions about growth and development.
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Follow Spring's Journey North Recording Highlights of the Season

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students scan headlines on the Journey North News Updates each day to track the changes that spring brings as it comes to different areas of the United States.
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Butterflies An internet Scavenger Hunt

For Students 4th
In this biology learning exercise, 4th graders find the answers to a guided web search looking for the information found on the Internet focused around the subject of butterflies for the 5 problems.
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Butterfly Life Cycle

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders engage in a lesson that covers the life cycle of a butterfly. They use the Kidpix software to create a drawing of the life cycle with the help of an illustration given by the teacher as a guide. Then students discuss the...
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Beautiful Fliers

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this multiplication concepts worksheet, students solve 5 problems in which beginning multiplication concepts are introduced in word problems about butterflies.
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Language Arts Review First Grade: Sentence Construction

For Teachers 1st
In this language arts review first grade:  sentence construction worksheet, 1st graders answer 15 multiple choice questions in standardized test format about sentences.
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Symmetry that is Basic and Beautiful

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners explore lines of symmetry. In this symmetry lesson, students divide and combine shapes along basic lines of symmetry. Learners explore symmetry in real life objects.
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How Hot is Too Hot?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use the scientific method to conduct experiments on the temperature effects on organisms. In this temperature effects on organisms lesson plan, 5th graders observe and record the hatching or the developing of organisms into...
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Poetry

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners write a poem. In this language arts lesson, students discuss what they hear and see in a garden. Learners write a poem about the sights, sounds and smells of the garden.
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Milkweed Plants

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders view milkweed plants (or pictures). The describe the plant and discuss ways some butterflies use it as a food source. Students view four pictures of different phases of a milkweed plant's life cycle. They discuss the...
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Journey North

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study butterflies and their migration habits. They track butterfly migration and communicate via e-mail with students in Mexico where the butterflies migrate. They write letters to the students in Mexico, as well.
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Ready, Set, Grow

For Teachers 1st
Create a class butterfly garden, then write journal entries with illustrations of the garden.
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Butterfly Life Cycle

For Teachers K
Students read books about animals and describe their structures, how they grow and change, and their life cycles. In this animals lesson plan, students also make animals out of pasta.
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Looking at shapes, colours and patterns in Flowers and Butterflies

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students study patterns, lines, shapes, and colors in both flowers and butterfly wings. They create their own flower and butterfly drawings and/or models to reinforce the concept.
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Find the Frog

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students, the advanced beginner to intermediate ESL level, use English in a science activity.
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The Princess Easter

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this holiday reading worksheet, students read a short story about the Easter holiday. Students then answer 5 questions about the story.
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Yertle the Turtle

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this Dr. Seuss story problems worksheet, students read through the Dr. Seuss story problems and solve them. There are 10 story problems on the page and they are all very basic math.
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The Grouchy Ladybug By Eric Carle

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete a unit about ladybugs based on Eric Carle's, The Grouchy Ladybug. They complete comprehension questions, categorization activities, Venn diagrams, and choral readings of Susan M. Paprocki', Little Red Bug. As they...
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What's Up at the Rim?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are sent on a scavenger hunt to find as many plants as they can in nature.
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Increase the Peace At Recess

For Teachers K - 6th
Students discuss activities that could further keep the peace at recess. Using vocabulary, they analyze recess from a different point of view. They discover how working together can make their school a safer and fun place. They...
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Using Chuang Tzu in a British Literature Curriculum

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students read and compare/contrast translations of Chuang Tzu and "Beowulf." They complete handouts, answer discussion questions, identify themes and symbols, and complete various writing assignments.
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Adopt An Insect

For Students 2nd - 5th
This lesson plan combines a creative building activity with analyzing a butterfly photograph and using problem solving to complete the puzzle. It blends art and science very well. Students will learn and enjoy the process. The extension...